Hello guys i just bought my first car, a 1998 Jeep Cherokee 4 Door Sport with a seized 4.0
The body and engine has 233xxx on it . i picked it up for 900$
im buying a motor next week and swaping. Bought it from a dude that said he it ran like 4 months ago . Then he drove it into his shop and try starting it again and it locked up .

Im guessing you blew a piston and thats what smashed the ceramic. A few of the plugs on my non running 1994 ZJ looked similar...

Me too . I'm thinking that water or another substance is in the motor because I went to drain some oil out of it the other day and a gallon of water then a gallon of antifreeze came out before any oil did.

Why did you put an older dash that doesn't have a tachometer in? Other than that your rig looks clean and a good start for a built rig! I agree with above that you should also change out the motor mounts and all those other parts in thee engine bay that are critical.

Hey guys . The motor mounts look good and I bought New hoses water pump thermostat wires cap roster spark plugs all that stuff . Spend 250 for all new stuff for my motor . The engine should be in by Tuesday . I will upload so more photos then . And when i uploaded the first pictures it looked like I took out a new Tec and put an old one in but the photos uploading wrong order

Hey people , I k.ow it has been a while buy I have been drving her all summer and fall , no problems at all , took her offroading a couple times and took her on a bunch of trips all summer long , recent.news , I did an oil chande and what not , did a front break job , pads, rotors , calbipers, I put on all new shocks , I top all the liquids off every week , just did a colant flush and got some new green stuff in there , pretwction to Like -35 degrees so that all good , I got a 2 much bb lift , rough country shakles and coil spacers , looks good , just to help clear snow for.the winter and my 2-3 shift.solenoid went out , I have been having to 'shift ' my jeep even know its an auto but I picked up new ones , ordering a new tranny filter and.fluids along side.with the gasket for when I put the new shift selinoids later this week , anyways ill try and get some pictures up loaded soon , time to keep up on this forum now haha